The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-05
A RAILROAD PROJECT.
OF MAGNITUDE AND IMPORTANCE.
a Scheme OF the Pounsylvnnia Company
to Secure West virginia Duslncss-A
New Through Line from Plttsburrh /,
to Cincinnati via Wheeling.

A"o W "Ao" AhoA AopAeooAtluR u large
number Of the leading and most inauen.
tial capitalists Of the East and South was
held at the Offices OF tho Pennsylvania
Company in Pittsburgh. The buuiness
considered at this meeting was varied,
but the most important was the letting Of
contracts for tho building Of "a road that
will DO q part oil the general Pennsylvania
system. The new company, which Ia
known az tho Ohio 4 Northwestern Rail.
road Company, was organized for the pur.
pose Of building a road from Huntington
to Cincinnati, en- the Ohio side OF the
river, in immediate connection with the
Ohio River road, on this aide, (which, as
tho reader Is aware, connecting with the
Pennsylvania Company's p, W, & XIV.
branch at this point, continues on down
the river to Pt. Pleasant, and ia 10 be
pushed through to Huntington this
coming aeason. ~ -
1t has been IN open secret for some time
that the Pennsylvania road has bean try.
Ing to enter Cincinnati by q road through
the Ohio Valley. Senator Camden has
been &C cooperating with the Pennsylvania
railroad and has furniahed 1t a link in his
Ohio River road. From Portsmouth, O..
a ehort distance below Huntington, a mar.
row gauge road extends into Cincinnati.
The possession Of thisroad has heen sought
for by Senator Camden and emissaries OF
the Pennsylvania road for the last eivh-
teen months, but other railroad Companies
have combined TO keep up the roads
separate identity. The narrow pauce
however, has only q problematic exis-
tence and will in time fall into the chain
as the final link.
1t Is reported that the Ohio 4 North.
western company has already purchased
the Cincinnati & Eastern and tho Cincin-
natl \ Portsmouth, Railroads, and both
are being relaid with the heaviest of rails.
Tho tifty-three miles Of railroad between
Gallipolis and Portsmouth. which is in
course Of construction, will be finished by
August next.
Among the Eastern people interested in
the new venture are James G. Blaine,
William Walter Phelps, Warner Miller,
D. 0. Mile, George West, Wharton Barker
Of Philadelphia, and Others. It organized
by electing Fl. q. Parsons, President aud
Edward G.. Peachin, OF New York, Vice
President. In connection with these re.
ports there is one to the effect that A, J.,
Warmers road which was graded seven
yesrpi ago from Bellaire to Marietta, o +,
will be extended as fur as Porueroy, thus
connecting Pittsburgh directly with a new
section by m and possibly two new linee ;
but this is not generally credited.
4 Wheeling railroad man who Is well
posted told an 1NTRLLIGENCER represents
tive recently, that he fully expected to see
within the year through trains run from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati by the Pennsyl-
vania Company via Wheeling and the
Ohio River road. When fully completed
and ballasted it will be far the shortest,
best and prettiest route between those two
points.
It is evident that the Pennsylvania
Company is after q large share OF West
Virginis's business. She already has a
fo1cs Of engineers at. work upon the valley
OF the Monongshela river between Browne
vile and the mouth OF the Cheat river,
surveying the route for the extension OF
the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston
road to Morgantown. Thence the road
will follow the Mo1ongahelR to Fairnont,
whence it will follow the West Fork river
to Clarksburg. From that point it will
likely occupy the road bsd Of the the
Weston s. C%larksburg narrow gauge to
Weston, whence it will go through the
counties of Gilmer, Calhoun and Roane
to the kanawha county line, whence it
will proceed to Charleston.
The Pittsburgh Times. in referring to
these schemes, Gays: with an absolute
possession OF the West Virginia river front
and o road that bisects that State the
Pennsylvania Company will be early in
the coming development OF tho State and
in q position to take charge Of it's great re-.
sources. It is likely that the Southwest
Pennsylvania road will be extended from
Fairchance to the Cheat river next sum-
mer and from the mouth Of the Cheat to-
ward its sources, in Randolph county,
where 1t will connect with the Henry G,
Davis system, the next important interior
system of Weat Virginia"